Kiril Zakharov

Kiril Zakharov was Director of the SVR, Russia's foreign intelligence agency.

Biography
Kiril Zakharov was a veteran of the Soviet KGB intelligence service, and he rose in the ranks of the Russian Federation's SVR service until he rose to the rank of Colonel and became the SVR's director. In 2018, he ordered Deputy Director Ivan V. Egorov to discover the identity of the SVR mole "Marble" after CIA agent Nate Nash was found to have met with the mole at Gorky Park before the police intervened and chased them off. The ensuing operation saw Egorov send his own niece, SVR "sparrow" Dominika Egorova, to attempt to seduce Nash and discover Marble's identity, but she ultimately decided to become a CIA double agent. She framed her own uncle as "Marble", despite knowing that General Vladimir A. Korchnoi was the true defector, and Zakharov had Egorov killed at a "spy swap" in Budapest, Hungary.